Re: Burn Baby Burn
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The Western Pacific did that with their wood PFE reefers. Rich Christie
On Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 08:41:13 AM CDT, Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote:
Indeed by the 1950's air pollution had become a major issue in southern California (which is why the SP and other railroads prematurely had to cease steam operations in the LA basin). These Pacific Electric cars were scrapped with torches - but what a bonfire this would have made! Tim O'Connor On 4/25/2022 10:16 PM, Jerry Michels wrote: ART burned retired
wooden reefers at Bush, IL, which is curious because it was
not ART property but rather a remote coal marshaling yard in
southern Illinois on the Missouri Pacific. MP owned half of
ART. Perhaps the smoke didn't attract as much attention as
it did in populated areas?
Jerry Michels
-- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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